Ten Commandments to 900 Pages

The Outline of a Document.

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The Story of One at the Deep Beginning

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It was once, Once, in a desert

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deep between azure shores that spoke of silver fish beneath and a sure way into the desert around them.

It spoke of dominion and earning, life and learning built of ages-hard sand become granite of all kinds

where nothing should grow. Cities that grew up out of villages wrought from hut-like settlements

so deep back in human time that we have all forgotten it long ago

like it was never so.

We have been guessing ever since. How long has that scripture grown?